The Library of Alexandria
The Ptolemies built an institution with one aim: collect every scroll in the known world, copy it, and fund scholars to work beside it.
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The Library of Alexandria
The Ptolemies built an institution with one aim: collect every scroll in the known world, copy it, and fund scholars to work beside it.
Baghdad's House of Wisdom drives a translation century
Under the Abbasids, scholars in Baghdad translated Greek, Persian, Syriac and Sanskrit works into Arabic and pushed the sciences far beyond their sources.